Wilmington Eviction Risk: Lower

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 5.7% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,622 filings here across 12 tracked years.

44% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the New Hanover County average of 48.2%. Housing insecurity runs 6.7% against 14.2% nationally.

It sits 0.7 points below the New Hanover County average of 4.0. The worst year on record was 2006, when 37.8% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 21.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 27th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $108,158, annual rent is just 16%. Average gross rent is $1,439, close to the Wilmington average. 32% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.